Sesheke
Sesheke is a border town in the Western Province of Zambia, in a district of the same name. It lies on the northern bank of the Zambezi River which forms the border with Namibia's Caprivi Strip at that point.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Town with 29,900 residents
- Description: Town in Zambia
- Also known as: “Shesheke” and “Sisheke”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sesheke Airport.
Sesheke Airport
Aerodrome
Sesheke Airport is an airport in the town of Sesheke, Western Province, Zambia. It also serves the town of Katima Mulilo, across the Zambezi River in Namibia. The Katima Mulilo non-directional beacon is 11.8 nautical miles southwest of the airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Katima Mulilo.
Katima Mulilo
Katima Mulilo is a small town with 46,500 people on the banks of the Zambezi River in the Zambezi region of Namibia. Compared to many other parts of Namibia you will find people in small communities living in huts.
Sesheke
- Categories: human settlement, border city, and locality
- Location: Western Province, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-17.48095° or 17° 28′ 51″ south
Longitude
24.29447° or 24° 17′ 40″ east
Population
29,900
Elevation
951 metres (3,120 feet)
IATA airport code
SJQ
United Nations Location Code
ZM SJQ
Open location code
5GJ6G79V+JQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Sesheke from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Sesheke” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيشيك”
- Bulgarian: “Сешеке”
- Cebuano: “Sesheke”
- Chinese: “塞謝凱”
- Dutch: “Sesheke”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيشيك”
- Estonian: “Sesheke”
- French: “Sesheke”
- Fulah: “Sesheke”
- German: “Sesheke”
- Hausa: “Sesheke”
- Irish: “Sesheke”
- Italian: “Sesheke”
- Japanese: “セシェケ”
- Moksha: “Сэшэкэ”
- Polish: “Sesheke”
- Portuguese: “Sesheke”
- Romanian: “Sesheke”
- Russian: “Сешеке”
- Russian: “Шешеке”
- Spanish: “Sesheke”
- Swahili: “Sesheke”
- Ukrainian: “Сешеке”
- Urdu: “سیشیکے”
- Western Mari: “Сешеке”
- Zulu: “Sesheke”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sesheke Town Council Adminstration Block Offices and Sesheke Council.
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